I've had a lot of conversations - before & after the election - with white liberals trying to tell me how much racial progress "we've" made.
A quick word about white supremacy, racial optimism and the tendency to downplay racial crisis..
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Day before the election, a white academic reacted to my racial pessimism with "things aren't so bad".. referred to improved "data points".
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I had to explain that I'm also a "data person", but that the data I see are the everyday lives of POC who experience ongoing racial terror.
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To my surprise, 30 minutes later, this academic followed up with me to say: "You're right". He'd re-thought the racial progress narrative.
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Not only this, but he actually thanked me for pushing him to think beyond the liberal trope of progress.
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The thing about white supremacy is that it socializes all of us to minimize its terror, to systematically deny or under-estimate the harm.
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"We've come so far", "things are getting better", "it could be worse" -- all of these tropes minimize racial terror.
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Americans have been socialized to "look on the bright side" despite centuries of colonial & racial violence, torture and oppression of POC.
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@alwaystheself white liberals keep talking about millions of#Mexican#AfroAmericans as "minorities" I say it´s time to face reallity - その他の返信を表示
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@alwaystheself Prioritizing identity politics over progressive economic policy is part of why we lost. Don't deny that, it's obvious - その他の返信を表示
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@JamesTCarterII Without racialized voter suppression, Clinton would have won this walking. -
@fivetonsflax Wouldn't have overcome high turnout by poor Whites who (wrongly) assume that liberals only like poor ppl if they're not White -
@JamesTCarterII This is not correct. Trump got fewer votes than Romney. -
@fivetonsflax Rural/small town Whites give conservatives and electoral college advantage, and we made them feel demonized and/or forgotten - その他の返信を表示
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@JamesTCarterII Prioritizing white *feelings* over POC *safety*. I’m not here for it. -
@fivetonsflax Keep making it an either/or thing, I'm sure that will win us lots of elections - その他の返信を表示
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@alwaystheself Acknowledging incremental progress does not equate to ignoring today's real and serious racial problems. -
@willfleet Except when it's used to minimise or silence people trying to talk about today's racism problems.@alwaystheself -
@nixsight@alwaystheself I don't know of any examples of "silencing" people as a result of accepting progress. Minimizing, I can see that. - その他の返信を表示
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@willfleet (To clarify: No great argument with your position. Just question the value of splitting that hair in this thread.)@alwaystheself -
@nixsight@alwaystheself My point is, it isn't healthy to deny the progress that has been made in our lifetime. *Much* more needed of course
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